The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations

Autorentext
William Earl Weeks is Lecturer in History at San Diego State University. He is the author of John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire (1992) and Building the Continental Empire, 1815 1861, and co-editor of American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature (2003).

Klappentext
This new first volume proposes that the British North American colonists' desire for expansion, security and prosperity is the essence of American foreign relations.

Zusammenfassung
The four volumes of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations have served as the definitive source for the topic. This entirely new first volume argues that the British North American colonists' pre-existing desire for expansion, security and prosperity is the essence of American foreign relations and the root cause for the creation of the United States.

Inhalt
1. Origins of the American empire and union; 2. A perilous union, 1783; 3. The 'Empire of Liberty' on land and sea; 4. Towards hemispheric superiority; 5. Freedom's empire; 6. Expansionist vistas: Canada, Oregon, California and Texas; 7. Bullying Britain, conquering Mexico, claiming the canal; 8. Disunion; 9. The imperial crisis, 1861

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